I have been following a very simle PHP tutorial for beginners (hello world level). I soon learnt that in order to run the scripts in the tutorial I hade to have apache installed and and run the scripts from /var/www through a browser. That sounds straght forward, but All I see on the browser (firefox) is the contents of my script.

I followed the Apache MySQL PHP howto on the ubuntu wiki but I eneded up with no internet conection. Not sure what I did wrong but I'm determind to get it right.

Any help or advice would be much appreciated